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  • Dutch, red clover are both good options. Dutch will only grow a 6-8" tall. Red clover can get up to 18". The micro clover pipolina is one that I personally like and only gets 2-3" tall…

    In difficult spots subterranean clover can survive. It’s an interesting species as it’s seeds are formed underground like a peanut.






  • The nodules in the roots are the happy little homes that the plant provides for the bacteria to grow and reproduce in.

    It’s the production location, not the storage location. The nitrogen is incorporated into proteins and used all over the plant. It’s especially concentrated in legume seeds.

    For example winter peas can produce up to 400lbs/acre of nitrogen during its growing season (newer varieties like Icicles etc). If you removed the top and the seeds you remove around 350-375lbs of N. So you get 25-50lns of N per acre if you leave just the roots. So it’s best to incorporate the entire plant in when the seeds reach soft dough stage.


  • A dwarf Dutch Clover like mini or micro clover is what you are looking for. Some It’s a smaller form that blends very well with grass and requires very little maintenance.

    Some people use standard forage type ladino or Dutch Clover. I have even seen some people use red clover (trifolium pretense).

    You can get it by special ordering it online or a local seller with turf grass dealer/distribution contracts.

    It’s best to buy the seed innoculated and coated.

    It’s seeded at around 2-3bs/acre so a little goes a long ways.



  • Slight clarification: Dutch Clover (trifolium repens) under nitrogen deficient conditions, at temperatures above 50F and below 95F, and with the correct rhyzobium species present, with soil pH between 5.5 & 8.0, can produce nitrogen that is stored in its tissue.

    When clover is mowed and the clippings mulched back into the soil, the decomposition of the leaves adds nitrogen to the soil. If you remove the clippings the nitrogen goes with it.

    Clover doesn’t just release more nitrogen into the soil, it takes a bit of work.



  • That is one hell of a bargaining chip on the dealer.

    The dealer now has an expensive dilemma: rebrand, offer to purchase the name, or lease the name back. Any choice they make will cost them.

    If I was her I would get an estimate on how much rebranding would cost them and offer them a yearly lease at 1:20th of the cost. Sign a 5 year lease then up it by 50% every 5 years until they have to rebrand.

    Say it would cost them 1 million to rebrand. First five years 50K/year next 5 years $75K etc. the object is to string them along while extracting a steady cash flow that initially seems easy to reach. She could probably get 30 years of payments out of them netting over 5 million and still fuck them over in the end forcing them to rebrand.

    But I am vengeful that way.


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    Which is why a lower protein (spring/fall) koi pellet is a bit better. They also absolutely love it.

    That’s why I have to chase the female mallard duck out of my koi pond every spring. If she gets some of the koi food she makes a nest and raises babies.